Art: Frugal Elegance

In the past couple of decades, many weird objects have been produced by
the welding torch and palmed off as sculpture; but heat and metal and
modern art do not always have to create monstrosities. One man who has
proved this is 56-year-old José de Rivera, 15 of whose sculptures went
on display last week at Manhattan's Whitney Museum. De Rivera's scoops
and swoops of polished or painted metal are liquid geometry produced
with such skill that neither hammer blow nor welded seam is ever
visible.

De Rivera is the kind of man who can repair a tractor, shoe a horse...